SELECTED BOOKS AND CATALOGUES
Benjamin Goodwin, “Babi Yar Memorialised: in Soviet Poetry, Art”, essay in Music, Mortality, Memory, edited by Douglas Davies and Matthew McCullough (Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2026)
Irina Mamonova, “Leningradskii Ekspressionism”: Solomon Gershov, Gavriil Glickman, Felix Lemberskii (Moscow: BookMart, 2020). In Russian
Yelena Lembersky and Galina Lembersky, Like a Drop of Ink in a Downpour: Memories of Soviet Russia (Boston: Cherry Orchard Books, 2022). Finalist for Indie Book of the Year and National Jewish Book Award, in Memoir; Women’s National Book Association selection, 2022 )
Julie Masis, How My Grandfather Stole a Shoe and Survived the Holocaust in Ukraine, a memoir (Boston: Cherry Orchard Books, 2025). Includes over eighty drawings by Felix Lembersky
Lev Ozerov, Robert Chandler Portraits without Frames (New York: New York Review Books Classics, 2018). Stair on the book cover.
Beings and Being: Felix Lembersky, exh. cat. (London: Pushkin House, 2013)
Felix Lembersky: Soviet Form, Jewish Context, essay by Joel Berkowitz (Milwaukee, WI: Jewish Museum Milwaukee, 2013)
Torn From Darkness: Works by Felix Lembersky, essays by Galina Lembersky, J. C. Troncale, et al. (Richmond, VA: University of Richmond, 2012)
Rachel Jennae Crouch, “Felix Lembersky: Painting the Truth. The Story of a Soviet Artist’s Re-Evaluation” (BA thesis, University of Colorado, Boulder, Spring 2012)
Faces of Babi Yar in Felix Lembersky’s Art: Presence and Absence, introduction by ChaeRan Freeze, poem by Ilyah Ehrenburg translated by Maxim Shrayer, exh. cat. (Waltham, MA: Brandeis University, 2011)
Yelena Lembersky and Galina Konechna, eds., Felix Lembersky: Paintings and Drawings, essays by Alison Hilton, Yelena Lembersky, Elena Ilyina, Larisa Smirnikh, Avgust Lanin, and Natalia Lanina (Moscow: Galart, 2009). In English and Russian
“Project ‘Felix Samuilovich Lembersky 1913–1970’,” in Restoration as the Rebirth of Art: Restoration of Painting of the Sixteenth to Twentieth Centuries from the Collection of the Nizhny Tagil State Museum of Fine Art, essay by Antonina Nasedkina, exh. cat. (Nizhny Tagil, Russia: Nizhny Tagil State Museum of Fine Art, 2007), 72–75. In Russian
Elena Ilyina, Larisa Smirnikh, and Antonina Nasedkina, Feliks Lembersky, Tvortsi–Uzniki Sovesti (Nizhny Tagil: Nizhny Tagil State Museum of Fine Art, 2006). In Russian
Elena Ilyina, Larisa Smirnikh, and Marina Ageeva, Painting of the First Half of the Twentieth Century from the Collection of the Nizhny Tagil State Museum of Fine Arts (Nizhny Tagil, Russia: State Museum of Fine Art, 2004). In Russian
Y. Ilyina and L. Smirnikh, “Felix Lembersky and Tagil Periods in His Art,” Gornozavodskoi Ural (Nizhny Tagil), 2004: 75–92. In Russian
Natalya Lanina, Avtoportret na Fone SSSR (Saint Petersburg, Russia: Nestor-Istoria, 2010), 243–52. In Russian
Musya Glantz, “Jewish Artists in Russian Arts: Painting and Sculpture in Soviet and Post-Soviet Eras,” in Jewish Life after the USSR, edited by Zvi Gitelman with Musya Glants and Marshall I. Goldman (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2003), 230
Ori Z Soltes, essay in Felix Lembersky: From Socialist Realism to Expressionism, 1942–65, exhibition catalogue (Brookville, NY: Hillwood Art Museum, 1999)
Petr Kornilov, Paintings by Felix Lembersky and Sculpture by Mikhail Vayman (Leningrad: LOSKh, 1960). In Russian
V. M. Zimenko et al., Visual Art during the Great Patriotic War (Moscow: Akademia Khudozhestv SSSR, 1951), 157–58. In Russian
Marietta Shaginyan, Decade of the Arts in the Urals: A Collection of Essays in Six Volumes, volume 6, “About Art and Literature” (Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe Izdatelstvo Khudozhestvennoi Literaturi, 1958), 417–29
“Decade of the Arts in the Urals,” Homefront in the Urals: A Writer’s Diary (1944), 125–26
PERIODICALS AND ONLINE RESOURCES
Felix Lembersky, website: https://lembersky.org/
Art as a Window into the Social Unconscious: Disturbances in the Field. Encounters with Felix Lembersky. APsA DPE educational forum, national meeting, San Francisco, 2025. Catalogue, (full color, 8 pages) and a slideshow/film. Posted on Youtube.
Felix Lembersky in Color, short film by Yelena Lembersky, Robert Goodwin, and Jason Blanchard. With original music by Katie Freeze created for the symposium “Faces of Babi Yar in Felix Lembersky’s Art: Presence and Absence,” Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, 2011. Posted on YouTube.com and Vimeo.com
Brushstrokes of Courage. Bearing Witness to the Holocaust. Felix Lembersky, short digital film by Arivalagan Gajraj, Listen Without Borders, 2023. A collaboration between the Havighurst Center of Russian and Post-Soviet Studies at Miami University, the Institute for Russian, European and Eurasian Studies at the University of South Florida, and The Melikian Center: Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies at Arizona State University
Herb Randall, “A Vivid Memoir by Artist Felix Lembersky’s Offspring,” Jerusalem Report, January 13, 2023
Irina Mamonova, “Feliks Lemberskiy. Chelovek Buduschego. Vremya ne Zhdet” (“Felix Lembersky. A Man from the Future. Time Does Not Wait”). Lecture, November 17, 2023, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Felix Lembersky War and Holocaust, Youtube, 2023 (online exhibition)
Felix Lembersky Workers and Industry, Youtube, 2023 (online exhibition)
Felix Lembersky Russia and Ukraine, Youtube, 2023 (online exhibition)
Yelena Lembersky, “Babyn Yar and the Art of Felix Lembersky | The Florida Holocaust Museum,” Youtube, posted October 11, 2023
In Good Faith podcast, Brigham Young University, 2023
Grace Breen, “‘I Have Not Seen Everything Yet’: The Revolutionary Spirit of Soviet Artist Felix Lembersky,” video, Youtube, posted 2023
Herb Randall, “‘This Feeling Will Never Leave Me’: On Yelena and Galina Lembersky’s Like a Drop of Ink in a Downpour,” The Los Angeles Review of Books, January 18, 2022
Susan Blumberg-Kason, “Remembering the Final Years of Leningrad: A Conversation with Yelena Lembersky,” World Literature Today, May/June 2022, 22–25
Yelena Lembersky, letter to the editor, “The Mail: Remembering Babyn Yar,” The New Yorker, May 30, 2022
––––––, “Babyn Yar and Putin’s War in Ukraine,” The Forward, March 3, 2022
Rich Eldred, “Author sharing story of rescuing art from Russia at Brewster benefit for Ukraine,” wickedlocal.com, posted August 9, 2022
Julie Masis, “Relics of a USSR Both Maddening and Sweet Emerge in Blockbuster Jewish Memoir,” The Times of Israel, July 26, 2022
Suzanne Chessler, “Memories of Soviet Russia,” TheDetroit Jewish News, 2022
“The Art of Felix Lembersky: A conversation with Ori Z Soltes, Yelena Lembersky, and Rachel Stern, Fritz Ascher Society for Persecuted, Ostracized, and Banned Art, YouTube, posted March 15, 2022
Robin Young, “Russian dissident mother and daughter discuss art, imprisonment and escape in new memoir,” interview of Yelena and Galina Lembersky, Here & Now, National Public Radio, May 23, 2022
Cardinal Points Literary Journal 10 (2020)
Documentary, “Julius Fucik” television program aired in the greater Ekaterinburg district, Urals, 2015–18. In Russian.
Jenny Miller Sechler, “Felix Lembersky: Soviet Form, Jewish Context,” Arts New England, 2015/2015
Yelena Lembersky, “Being and Beings: Anthropomorphism in the Art of Felix Lembersky,” Cardinal Points Literary Journal 4 (2014)
“Beings and Being: Felix Lembersky,” exhibition review, Jewish Quarterly online, posted 2013
Financial Times (London), exhibition review, 2013
Ori Z Soltes, “How Felix Lembersky Smuggled Jewish Motifs into Soviet Art,” The Forward, September 22, 2011
ChaeRan Freeze, “Unearthed,” Tablet (online), March 10, 2011
Ori Z Soltes, “Felix Lembersky: The Artist Uncovered,” exhibition review, Ars Judaica 7 (2011)
Christian M. Wade,”Postwar Russia Captured in the Art of Felix Lembersky,” BU Today, September 22, 2011
Juhi Varma, “Scholars Discuss Nonconformism,” Art New England, November–December 2011
Leah Burrow, “Getting Felix Lembersky his due,” The Jewish Advocate, August 26, 2011
“One Foot in Two Worlds: Felix Lembersky at BU Hillel,” ArtsLive@BU, October 3, 2011
Eric Herschthal, “Babi Yar and the Rose Art Museum: Things Worth Seeing,” The Jewish Week, March 1, 2011
Leah Burrow, “A Jewish Artist’s Untold Story,” The Jewish Advocate, March 4, 2011
Musya Glants, “Felix Lembersky: Paintings and Drawings,” book review, The Russian Review, July 2010
Irina Karasik, “Felix Lembersky: Paintings and Drawings,”book review, Dialog Iskusstv (DI) 3, 2010
Jesse Vestermark, “Felix Lembersky, 1913–70: Paintings and Drawings,” book review, Art Library Society of North America (ARLIS), 2009 (online)
Mikhail Krutikov, book review, Forverts (The Forward), 2009. In Yiddish
Jewish News (Detroit, MI), May 19, 1989
Jewish News (Detroit, MI), July 15, 1988
Iosif Zisman, “The Life of Felix Lembersky,” Sovetish Heimland, 1972. In Yiddish
“Falik Lembersky,” in “Essays about Artists,” ZTYME, Krakow, December 13, 1969. In Polish
“Felix Lembersky.” Sovetish Heimland, Moscow, 1969. In Yiddish
“Sovetske výtvarné umenie,” Sovetskoe Iskusstvo (Trutnov, Czechoslovakia: OV SČSP, 1961). In Czech
Soviet Landscape, essay by A. Davidov (Moscow: Iskusstvo, 1958). In Russian
I. Berezark, “Exhibition of Tagil Artists,” Tagilskiy Rabochiy (Nizhny Tagil, Russia), May 29, 1943. In Russian
“Trud,” Urals Almanach, 1943–44
“The Art in the Urals Today.” Literatura I Iskusstvo, December 19, 1942. In Russian
Marietta Shaginyan, “Decade of the Arts in the Urals,” Literatura I Iskusstvo, November 30, 1942. In Russian
“The Work of Tagil Artists,” Tagilskiy Rabochiy (Nizhny Tagil, Russia), November 7, 1942. In Russian
“Decade of the Arts in the Urals.” Izvestiya, October 24, 1942. In Russian
“Tagil Artists at Work,” Tagilskiy Rabochiy (Nizhny Tagil, Russia), September 13, 1942. In Russian
Felix Lembersky, “Let’s Organize a Union of Soviet Artists in Nizhny Tagil,” Tagilskiy Rabochiy (Nizhny Tagil, Russia), July 28, 1942. In Russian
“Proletarskaya Pravda,” Globus, 1933. In Russian
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS
The University of South Florida, Tampa, FL; Queen’s University, Kingston and Toronto, ON; The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; Tufts University, Medford, MA; The University of Wisconsin Stahl Center and Jewish Museum, Milwaukee; University of Richmond, VA; Boston University; Brandeis University, Waltham, MA; The Academy of Art, Saint Petersburg, Russia; European University, Saint Petersburg, Russia; Chilton Club, Boston, MA
Saint Petersburg, Russia; Moscow, Russia; Lublin Museum, Lublin; Nizhny Tagil Art Museum, Nizhny Tagil, The Urals, Russia
ACADEMIC CONFERENCES
“Art as a Window into the Social Unconscious: Disturbances in the Field. Encounters with Felix
Lembersky.” (APsA DPE educational forum, national meeting, San Francisco, 2025)
“Sacred Symbols in Hiding: Felix Lembersky’s Paintings” (The Visual Culture of Iconoclasm and Atheism, Museum of Russian Icons, Clinton, MA, June 11, 2022)
“Babyn Yar paintings and Holocaust symbols in the art of Felix Lembersky” (Art of the Holocaust until 1989: Beyond an East/West Divide, Jewish Studies Program, Central European University in cooperation with the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary, June 8–10, 2022) (downloadable program, downloadable booklet)
Annual conventions of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, 2013, 2011; American Jewish Studies
